The Catholic Church was obfuscating abuse up until the media blowout in 2002
In the early 90s, the bishop of the diocese in which I grew up in mandated that a letter be read from the pulpit at all the parishes that informed us exactly what was going on. Catholics who were paying attention knew what was going on.
The reason there are so few excommunications in this country is that the Catholic laity has moved so far away from the dogma of the Catholic Church that to excommunicate everyone who disagreed with some part of church dogma would leave precious few Catholics left.
They would only have to do it to the politicians .. a very pragmatic course of action.
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In the early 90s, the bishop of the diocese in which I grew up in mandated that a letter be read from the pulpit at all the parishes that informed us exactly what was going on. Catholics who were paying attention knew what was going on.
The reason there are so few excommunications in this country is that the Catholic laity has moved so far away from the dogma of the Catholic Church that to excommunicate everyone who disagreed with some part of church dogma would leave precious few Catholics left.
They would only have to do it to the politicians .. a very pragmatic course of action.